When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves
In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.